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Friday, September 26, 2008
How to Land a 747
Kottke pointed me to this checklist, presumably if you are the civilian closest to the cockpit when the captain suddenly keels over. But also, probably, useful to the would-be hijackers among you. I'm going to store this with the other electronic memos I carry around with me for ready access at any time.
Labels: Aircraft hijacking, Aviation
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Timothy Garton Asch:
The time has come for a final report on the 43rd president of the US: "The man who set out to reinforce unbridled American power has weakened it in all three essential dimensions...
As the two men who would succeed him train like Olympic athletes for tomorrow's foreign policy debate, pause for a moment to complete your final report on the 43rd president of the United States. What would you say?
I would sum up his two terms in four words: hubris followed by nemesis." (Guardian.UK)Labels: Bush
Monday, September 22, 2008
Popularity of a Hallucinogen May Thwart Its Medical Uses
"Until a decade ago, the use of salvia was largely limited to those seeking revelation under the tutelage of Mazatec shamans in its native Oaxaca, Mexico. Today, this mind-altering member of the mint family is broadly available for lawful sale online and in head shops across the United States.
Though older Americans typically have never heard of salvia, the psychoactive sage has become something of a phenomenon among this country’s thrill-seeking youth. More than 5,000 YouTube videos — equal parts “Jackass” and “Up in Smoke” — document their journeys into rubber-legged incoherence. Some of the videos have been viewed half a million times.
Yet these very images that have helped popularize salvia may also hasten its demise and undermine the promising research into its possible medical uses.
Pharmacologists who believe salvia could open new frontiers for the treatment of addiction, depression and pain fear that its criminalization would make it burdensome to obtain and store the plant, and difficult to gain government permission for tests on human subjects. In state after state, however, including here in Texas, the YouTube videos have become Exhibit A in legislative efforts to regulate salvia. " (New York Times)Labels: Drugs, Salvia, Salvia divinorum
Finally, the APA Does Something About Psychologists' Participation in Torture Interrogations
Members Approve Petition to Limit Psychologists' Work in Some Detention Settings
Labels: Guantanamo, Torture
Katie Lee - Songs of Couch and Consultation
Freudian folksinger: 1961 Reprise Records LP by a beatnik folksinger disciple of Burl Ives and Josh White includes such psychoanalytic ditties as "Will to Fail", "Repressed Hostility Blues', and "It Must Be Something Psychological". The mp3s of selected songs are available at the WFMU site. (WFMU's Beware of the Blog)Labels: Music


